Techlog's Greatest Hits of 2007

One of the most addictive things about being a Web journalist is the ability to see exactly what readers are clicking on--that day, that month, or that year. Just out of curiosity--not that you're required to care--I checked out which posts in this very blog got read most in 2007. And here are the top ten, ordered by number of page views:

1. I Went Undercover With Dateline, Too: When a Dateline NBC reporter was outed at the DEF CON hackers' conference, I weighed in and remembered when I did some hidden-camera work with the TV show.

2. Google Apps vs. Microsoft Office: I mused about Google's online office suite and its pros and cons in comparison to a competitive product from a software company in Redmond.

3. I Have a New Favorite Web Browser: Flock: I surprise myself by discovering that Firefox is no longer my browser of choice.

4. Google Gets Silly For April Fools' Day: I dash off a quick post on Google's rather elaborate prank.

5. iGoogle It Is!: I note that Google is renaming its personalized page, and almost 5000 people take my silly little poll on whether "iGoogle" is a cool name or not.

6. Google Knows Where You Live: I attend a Google press event and explain that the company is trying to use knowledge about where you live to fine-tune your search results.

7. Hands on With Apple's New MacBook...With Windows!: I wrote this post about running Windows on a cheap Mac notebook in May, 2006; a year later, it was still getting enough traffic to make it one of my most-read items of 2007.

8. A Brief History of Computers, As Seen in Old TV Ads: Here's another 2006 item--with lotsa embedded YouTube videos--that apparently will never die.

9. Yahoo Mail Goes Infinite: A post about Yahoo Mail's new storage limit...or rather the lack thereof.

10. A Table. From Microsoft. Seriously.: Thoughts on Microsoft's touch-sensitive piece of furniture, plus some video and a poll (a plurality of people think it's intriguing, at least).

Happy new year!

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